skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Medical data shouldn't be going to Microsoft. I'm surprised it's even legal in the context of this story.

Your argument is also kind of silly. Yes, go ahead and submit all your life notes since 2k to Big Tech. What does that have to do with the larger context of how these tools are deployed, and specifically in the medical field where people do expect some semblance of privacy and is already regulated to some degree?
so f*** true.
This is a great project. I didn't realize that FDA Class I regulations were this easy to comply with.
Banning private equity (not sure how) is necessary to prevent enshitification of all health care and related services.
Regulation across the whole economy is one of the principle mechanisms of consolidation.

Vested interests sell regulation to the public as a "consumer protection" mechanism, then use regulatory capture as a tool to erect barriers to entry and impose complex rules that supersede common-law jurisdiction while giving them a range of tools to evade liability. The threat of competition is restrained, and a de facto collusive oligopoly can squeeze the market dry.
It's simple really:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoarding_disorder
Nice work!!

Did you push the source that you used to make this? I would be interested in following along.
People are responsible for their own behavior. They can't blame the game.
Breaking in on my Tang Soo Do sylabus at every belt grading. We do use plastic break boards rather than natural wood or concrete though.
Hybrids get a bad rep. It makes for such a difference: knowing that you don't need to worry about that 1%.
"Where is James?" – A reminder to choose your open-source libraries wisely
> Those would need to get cycled a lot(many times per day).

Fortunately these batteries have "an estimated lifespan of 50,000 cycles". Also, since there aren't super-dangerous elements in them, they should be much easier and cleaner to recycle/renew - especially with the giant recharge-station-scale ones' we're talking about, which could be designed specifically for that.
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Love it!

I built a similar alife simulation but as a Quake 2 mod using the monsters as the agents and plants and stuff with neural nets and genetic algorithms. My piece was titled "Ecosystem: Constructing a simple self-perpetuating society of adaptable agents" [1].

This was 2003, not for school but for fun. I submitted it for an ai writing comp on ai-depot.com but the comp failed for lack of entries. I have some pics on a repo backup of the project [2].

Agreed, "nature of code" looks like fun!

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20080624004102/http://www.ict.sw...

[2]: https://github.com/Jason2Brownlee/HumanDebrisArchive?tab=rea...
I do love the implicit assumption here that the only possible way to learn what the numbers on a power drill do is to either 1) guess, 2) be shown by an older sibling or similar, or 3) watch a video tutorial or something.

Most power drills come with instructions.
Hi, I use one account from my phone and one from my laptop. Didn't know it was frowned upon. I don't upvote my own post if that's what you were implying!
> excess consumption (travel etc.)

Could you explain what you mean by excess consumption?
Show HN: An interactive article generator for generating interactive articles
My friends and I have been experimenting with RAG chatbots for a while, but we decided to branch out and try something new, because it seems like a waste just to have all of that content disappear into the ether when you're done chatting. We wanted a way to conserve the mental energy people put into GPT. So we created Pantheon-Press, a platform sort of like Medium that allows users to upload PDF files and quickly transform them into interactive web articles and tutorials. We just launched it yesterday. Currently, we don't offer profit-sharing, so users looking to monetize their content will need to rely on things like Patreon and affiliate links. However, if people are interested, we're happy to add stuff.

Anyways, we decided to launch now to allow people to start using and providing feedback on our platform. I'm always reading that YC idea that if you aren't embarrassed by your mvp, you waited too long to launch. So here goes. Starter accounts are available with a free 30 day trial, so please give it a try and provide feedback if possible.
This is a great answer, by the way. I know have better insight into what happens in these animation loops.
Yeah, yet some people here still take it seriously to this day. I thought an explicit scam calling is appropriate at this point.
It seems like you're making a distinction between types of work.

For hobby or artisanal pursuits, homogeneity isn't the goal. Often the uniqueness is a feature. But for mass production or large coordinated efforts, uniqueness is a bug. You don't want your car to be manufactured by someone who just felt like a 3mm panel gap felt more right than the 4mm gap the specs called for. Standardization makes coordination easier and that's why some products are better when they are homogenous while others are better when they're allowed to be "creative."
> Promises have implications for event loop scheduling that preclude async (which implicitly returns a Promise) from providing synchronous semantics.

Those also generally are implementation details of the chosen Promise/Futures/Tasks transformer model. The monad itself says nothing about how things are plumbed, event loops are just one common/useful way to plumb it.

C# Tasks run synchronously by default, on the same thread, and there is no required event loop (but you may need to interoperate with the SynchronizationContext for one). (.NET for better and worse uses a heavier threading abstraction than microstasks/green-threads.) It's often a common misconception for .NET developers that Tasks are always async and run in other threads. You can write code with synchronous semantics in C# async/await. It requires care and understanding, but it is possible.

One of the reasons async/await is so complicated in Python is that you can bring your own plumbing. The most common plumbing tools that are winning are event loop based, but there are other options, some of which allow synchronous semantics. Similarly, Rust's async/await support is nearly as complicated, just with fewer competing third party library options.

Thinking about Futures/Promises/Tasks from a JS-heavy perspective (which I can presume by your preference for the name Promises) where everything has to be browser-mediated microtasks in an event loop makes it really easy to mistake this one monad tree (of microtasks on an event loop) for the overall forest of this large monad family (with a number of implementations under the hood).
"Power user."
Oh not that tired old lie. :-(

It's bullsh1t. It's not true. It wasn't an "investment". Microsoft stole Apple code and used it in Video for Windows. It got caught. Apple took MS to court and was going to win, so it settled. The marketing-lizards span this as "investing" but it's not true.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/stop-the-lies-the-day-that-mic...
> Some elaborate technical trade barrier? I think that is giving them too much credit.

> This is thinking from a military apparatus stuck in the 1950es.

Even if it started like that, I wouldn't be surprised if they now appreciate the unintended consequence of it serving as a "elaborate technical trade barrier."
Some hybrids don't, they just have a very small engine that charges the battery.
The biggest differentiator is that ShipAIFast provide you with prebuilt apps (currently 6 apps, assistant, pdf chat, image generator, copy writer, profile image, text-to-speech) integrated with OpenAI. You can use those apps immediately for you products, or you can even extend or customize further to make it more personalized.

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Humans aren't tools and therefore can't be 'useless'. You matter intrinsically. The most important lesson I've learned in life is the need to know and love myself - in a healthy, compassionate way. It doesn't matter what some other people think, what I do for them. I matter and you matter.
There's really no reason why you couldn't still have control with e.g. a verbatim mode or quotes.

This is a Google problem, not a search problem.
Many were locked out.

Who?

You've yet to provide examples of people barred from the campus for reasons other than specific, well-documented charges against them (in the case of Davidai, of stalking and harassing other students. And then he wasn't even barred from the campus per so, but simply from the West Lawn).
These numbers are easy to compute myself. For the 6 months my panels did not produce enough electricity, we used a total of 2.1MWh from the grid. So my 50% guestimate was actually spot on :)
I would imagine that a lot of wild plants that we regard as not particularly edible can look much more enticing when that's basically your only choice of food.

As far as wolves, it's still an open question as to how much they "self-domesticated" before humans noticed and started working from the other end. Seeing how human encampments would produce delicious food scraps in refuse (and still do, just ask any black bear!), it stands to reason that some animals would try to cash in on that opportunity. Then you have a selection process whereby the ones that are too skittish would not even bother, and the ones that are too aggressive would be chased away or worse.
The prediction wasn't for a desktop computer, it was for a home desktop terminal.
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Thank you! I saw that article and i was like "wait, what?? are they not aware that this is mostly a parlor trick???" I thought everyone was aware... No science needed, it's a trick.
When is this “tip after service” thing going to be rolled out to every country?

I’m really tired of tipping in advance, having the tip automatically set to 30%, being threatened with cold food if I remove the advanced tip, etc.
It would not necessarily fix things if private equity wasn't involved, but private equity is particularly effective at identifying cases where a market or regulatory inefficiency is not being maximally exploited, and jumping in to extract profits from that. So sort of by construction, when private equity enters a particular market, things are likely to get worse for consumers. It doesn't mean that things are golden if private equity is not involved.
The first step is to stop thinking of "the public" as a monolithic entity whose interests are pursued by the government, and instead recognize that control over things that have a major impact on the lives, welfare, freedom, and prosperity need to be things they can effectively control or opt-out of as individuals.

Regulatory intervention makes it harder, not easier, for individuals to take charge of these matters for themselves. You can bet that the first casualty of a regulatory regime for AI would be to suppress development of FOSS solutions that would eventually give people the maximal control and benefit from AI, and force them into dependence on third-party solutions offered by organizations that have influence over the regulatory regime itself.
Still, they shouldn't cost more than a high end Ebike.
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Market socialism. Or some in-between that recognizes that wealth and corporate power has a genuine responsibility to society as a whole. Myopic focus on profit as the only metric is the biggest problem, after all.
yes sorry, European settlers.

It's pretty inspiring that the Maori got here long before them with such primitive technology, I always thought that was a really incredible illustration of human spirit and bravery.
What about OTA updates? Do they preserve it?
Obviously I won't at least not for now. As for you showing me an older post I'd just ask if you ever tried to cheat some algorithm before?
Eternal September, except it’s an Econ 1 class.
The AE Studio website linked from the footer also needs some work to show comfortably on mobile.

Since you guys are hiring, I think it might make sense to pick candidates with strong skills in mobile web. They might be able to improve things for you guys right off the bat :D
> more than four times more expensive on a pound-for-megawatt basis

oh, the units people use today :)
> and most of the knowledge lost in the war in todays Poland was actually knowledge of german culture and heritage

Wow. It sounds like you have a grossly misinformed view of this part of the world, with a clear sense of superiority of one culture over the other. So, here's a few facts for you:

> Most likely on October 12-13, 1944, the Brandkommando of the Wehrmacht (Nazi German army) burned collections of the most valuable literary monuments from the National Library in one of the greatest losses to Polish culture in its history, and one of the greatest losses to written culture in history of the world. The National Library lost at least 39,000 manuscripts – and most likely more, perhaps as many as 50,000 – along with some 80,000 books from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, 100,000 books from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, 60,000 drawings and engravings, 25,000 musical scores and 10,000 maps. The great family libraries were almost wiped out, such as the famous collection of manuscripts of the Krasiński Library, of which just 78 volumes survived out of more than 7,000.¹

¹ https://www.bn.org.pl/en/news/3855-75-years-ago-the-germans-...
When it first started, OKCupid was about the perfect dating platform until Match.com bought it and totally killed the functionality with monetisation.
I'm referring to the large investor firms that go around buying out companies not listed on the stock exchange to capture entire markets, milk it for all it's worth, and then dump the shriveled corpse. This is very rarely good for the end customers or the employees who get outsourced. The owner gets millions though and it allows the PE firm to sell an asset class to investors.

On the one hand, I don't think it's right to restrict the rights of the business owner. If they have a company with $20M in revenue and PE offers $60M to buy them out...fair game right? On the other hand, it takes perfectly profitable companies providing value, extracts that wealth from happy consumers of the product to people already wealthy and then leaves the consumer with a crappy, expensive, and barely supported product. If this happens just a few times...it sucks, but no big deal. Once it starts happening all over America, then we start running into systemic problems like not being fleeced every time you want to go to a concert. It's not like a competing firm can just pop up either in a lot of cases as there are huge barriers to entry. There is no recourse other than not ever seeing your favorite artist again.
It is full of grifters and con-artists screeching around with their AI snake oil when it is just a bunch of APIs wrapped around and funnelled into someone else's GPT.

Yet another attempt to beg to foolish VCs for infinite Series A to Z funding rounds and easy money because they have slapped 'AI powered' on if-else-statements with APIs + GPTs and diluting it with their multi-level growth hacking schemes.

Another industry originally overseen by researchers that has hijacked and turned into another scam industry.
Good ole BSDi, always doing great for FreeBSD.
Really cool that an electric wheelchair costs more than a luxury EV and is somehow less reliable.
The UI has some merit for attractive people.
I don't know the cost of the measures that have been put in place to date to reduce CO2 emissions globally but undoubtedly it's a massive sum. On looking at this graph, it seems that whatever the sum it's had no discernible effect whatsoever on atmospheric CO2, irrespective of quoted emission reductions.

https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
> we don't ban individuals from working on project cars, or driving them on public roads - instead, we have standards for OEMs and individuals, and prosecute negligence

I'm not quite sure what you mean, or what in AI safety you see as analogous.

For other technology, certainly building and using certain things is illegal - you can't make hand grenades, lots of chemicals; I'm pretty sure you can't own certain instruments of crime, counterfeit money, etc. Many things you can do; it's not all or nothing.
This was one of the main reasons why I didn't have side projects for a very long time. My day job was fun, and it scratched every itch I had. It was such an expensive project that I knew that I simply couldn't afford to do anything that would excite me that much, so I threw all my creative energy into the job.

Eventually though, it became just a job, as it always does. And then the gaze turned elsewhere, looking for more enjoyment and satisfaction.
In the world of dating, "open" doesn't mean what you think it means.
>I didn't realize that FDA Class I regulations were this easy to comply with.

They definitely won't be once this open source effort shows any sign of success. You can't solve political problems with technical solutions. At best, you may be able to displace them, but even that is rare.
> regulations don't just disappear to allow for such imports as in your example

My point is the regulations are leading to the duopoly, which is the source of the problem. The last private-equity owner seems to have been fine. And the market was competitive before the CMS rules in 2005. I’m not suggesting scrapping the rules. But the rules are clearly well past safety.
> similar to the modern street lore about .22 pistols being the worst to get shot with

Where on Earth did you hear this?
Tipping before service is a bribe or unofficial bidding war to jump the line or worse, be in the line for pick up at all.
There are certainly many people who claim to believe in Christ while committing many sins. There’s also tons of atheists and liberals with similar sins. It would certainly help if people acted in line with their values. Also, if they stop causing others harm individually or politically. I’m with you there.

As I look at the Word, we see Jesus Christ promised that anyone who repents and believes in Him would receive eternal life by how good He was, not our own works. It’s a gift of grace. From there, John 15 shows real believers who are in the vine bear the fruit. We’re all steadily changed over time (sanctification) to be more like Him. So, we’ll all have faults.

Even in God’s Word, we see all kinds of sin in the churches. They have fake leaders, people about money, sexual immorality, ego, and James says they starve the poor. Yet, apostles call them “saints” because Jesus bought their future. Instead of discarding them, the apostles keep exhorting them to improve to become who they need to be. Anyone that confessed and made an effort would make it.

Whereas, we can’t let any excuse… ourselves or others… separate us from Christ. Apostasy leads to a worse fate than non-belief if one never returns. John says Christ will never let anyone snatch His real sheep out of His hand. He’ll forgive anyone that returns. I encourage you to return to your first love and find a Biblical church (eg GiveThemLife.com has help).
Oooh, I missed this distinction.
I'll emphasize it again: dietary fat is essential. Dietary carbs are not. You can live forever on zero carbs. Therefore it's extremely unlikely that carbs are more "valuable" than fat.

Whether "extra calories" go to fat or are burned, is determined by your level of insulin. You can google this. As a starting point, I recommend any video or blog post by Dr. Jason Fung.

Eating a high protein diet is difficult to do, and also hard on the kidneys. It may work for teenagers and twenty-something males who want to unnaturally bulk up. It is not healthy for long life.
What Is the Raft Consensus Algorithm?
exactly, I also hate websites that rely on oauth alone.
Figma's journey to TypeScript: Compiling away our custom programming language
It happens, Enron traders were turning off power plants in California that Enron owned to drive up electricity prices (and cause rolling blackouts). They only got caught after the implosion, i'm sure things like that happen all over the place in many industries.
The thing that mechanically totals modern crap cars (think cheap Nissans and Subarus) is often the CVT. Ford and GM have transmission problems pretty often. GP is totally right that the planetary eCVTs actually make cars way simpler. Look at Ford's (horrendous reputation with small cars) hybrids from the 2010s, lots of them running around with 300k on the clock.
The idea of tipping was to incentivize better service and to justify businesses paying service workers poorly. So getting rid of tipping actually ends up just hurting service workers. Might as well raise prices, pay workers more, and get rid of tipping.
Because they all used to be that (see old OkCupid, match.com, Plenty of Fish, etc), but swiping apps stole the majority of their user base when they came around and every app had to become another swiping app to attract users. 9 times out of 10, the person being approached is gonna look at the approaching person's pictures and "basic stats" (age, height, kids, religion, job, education, pets, smoking) and decide yes/no. So what's the point of all the other stuff?
> Is it nostalgia, or just if it aint broke don't fix it.

I see - yeah I get that, like classic cars, sailboats, SQL, etc.
Can't you make them behave however you want with sub millisecond reaction time?
> I imagine a lot of people, that would be totally acceptable if it means lower cost, and batteries that effectively last forever without replacement.

MBAs at car manufacturing companies will ensure that battery pack cost savings are NOT passed on to the consumer, don't worry about that.

We were supposed to hit $100/KWh on battery packs several years ago, but EV prices skyrocketed instead, despite literally being in the same plastic/aluminum shitbox where every car looks alike.

Cheap battery packs = higher margins for companies.
I don't think so.

Of course, YMMV.

I'm not an advocate for Linux use for other people. (Like I was about 20 years ago.) If they insist on Windows or a Mac, that's not my concern at all.

I often liken it to choice of brand of motor car I drive. I prefer to drive a Mercedes and have done for about 20 years. If other people want to drive a BMW or a Ford or a Chev, that's no concern of mine either.